Cody Simmonds

“Black Power was met by a new slogan, one spat out like a racist slur. Law and order.”
― Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

“debt will always be the abattoir of creative dreams.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“A lot of this lightness, Waits said, came from watching his children grow up and seeing their total freedom of creative expression. He noticed that his children felt fully entitled to make up songs all the time, and when they were done with them, they would toss them out “like little origami things, or paper airplanes.” Then they would sing the next song that came through the channel. They never seemed to worry that the flow of ideas would dry up. They never stressed about their creativity, and they never competed against themselves; they merely lived within their inspiration, comfortably and unquestioningly.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Often the most resource-ful person is the one who has tried the most approaches, taken the most risks, failed the most times.”
― Marty Neumeier, The 46 Rules of Genius: An Innovator's Guide to Creativity